{"product_id":"tarabas-a-guest-on-earth-a-new-translation-9798199840378","title":"Tarabas (A Guest on Earth): A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Konrad Silberfalk | Joseph Roth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gypsy woman tells the young Nicholas Tarabas his fate: he will be both a murderer and a saint. It is not the kind of prophecy a young man knows what to do with. He will spend his entire life finding out.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom provincial Russia to New York, from the trenches of the First World War to the command of a Galician garrison town, Tarabas moves through the upheavals of the early twentieth century with the terrifying force of a man who has never found a place he belongs. He is brave beyond reason, brutal beyond necessity, and possessed of a certainty that ordinary men find either magnetic or unbearable. Then, in a small town called Koryla, he commits an act of cruelty he cannot walk away from - and the second half of the prophecy begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1934, the first novel Roth completed in exile after fleeing Hitler's Germany, \u003ci\u003eTarabas\u003c\/i\u003e is one of his most elemental and most haunting works - a novel written in the register of folk tale and fable, following a single extraordinary soul from violence to repentance across a landscape of war, revolution, and destruction. Hermann Hesse called it one of Roth's most beautiful books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel about fate, guilt, and the extraordinary cost of becoming what you were always meant to be.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Joseph Roth. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Radetzky March\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968429801623,"sku":"9798199840378","price":1087.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199840378.webp?v=1782917952","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tarabas-a-guest-on-earth-a-new-translation-9798199840378","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}